The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, Հատոր 1Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833 |
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... friends , and its very glory to make bitter rivals of its contemporaries and comrades . • Accordingly we find that its ashes are hardly cold , before its frailties are raked up from the tomb , and baited at the ring of biography , till ...
... friends , and its very glory to make bitter rivals of its contemporaries and comrades . • Accordingly we find that its ashes are hardly cold , before its frailties are raked up from the tomb , and baited at the ring of biography , till ...
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... friends who violate the sanctity of private life to minister to the prevailing appetite for literary gossip , ever think of referring the imperfections they drag into public notice , ( yet fail not to deplore , ) to a tem- perament ...
... friends who violate the sanctity of private life to minister to the prevailing appetite for literary gossip , ever think of referring the imperfections they drag into public notice , ( yet fail not to deplore , ) to a tem- perament ...
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... friends was only waiting for the oppor- tunity to write his life . But how devoutly might he have wished that " nature's copy in him had been eterne , " had he known how many claims were shortly to be preferred to the property of his ...
... friends was only waiting for the oppor- tunity to write his life . But how devoutly might he have wished that " nature's copy in him had been eterne , " had he known how many claims were shortly to be preferred to the property of his ...
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... friend- ship been violated , no confidence been abused , and no errors exaggerated by the medium through which they have been viewed , it ceases to be a legitimate inquiry into private character , or pub- lic conduct , and no infamy is ...
... friend- ship been violated , no confidence been abused , and no errors exaggerated by the medium through which they have been viewed , it ceases to be a legitimate inquiry into private character , or pub- lic conduct , and no infamy is ...
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... friends had made a simple obituary serve the purpose of a history . It is rarely the lot of the wayward child of genius to have a Currie for his historian , and hence is it that frailties , which might have awa- kened sympathy , are now ...
... friends had made a simple obituary serve the purpose of a history . It is rarely the lot of the wayward child of genius to have a Currie for his historian , and hence is it that frailties , which might have awa- kened sympathy , are now ...
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The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in ..., Հատոր 1 Richard Robert Madden Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1833 |
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Էջ 29 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Էջ 80 - The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, — The majesty of darkness shall Receive my parting ghost ! This spirit shall return to Him That gave its heavenly spark; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou thyself art dark! No ! it shall live again, and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By him recall'd to breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of Victory, — And took the sting from Death...
Էջ 168 - I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, 'he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.
Էջ 179 - Every thing about his character and manners was forcible and violent ; there never was any moderation. Many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine : but when he did eat, it was voraciously ; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.
Էջ 94 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Էջ 178 - I never k'new any man who relished good eating more than he did. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the. moment ; his looks seemed rivetted to his plate ; nor. would he, unless when in very high company, say one word, or even pay the least attention to what was said by others, till he had satisfied his appetite, which was so fierce, and indulged with such intenseness, that while in the act of eating, the veins • of his forehead swelled, and generally a strong perspiration...
Էջ 188 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to...
Էջ 173 - It is not more strange that there should be evil spirits than evil men: evil unembodied spirits, than evil embodied spirits. And as to storms, we know there are such things; and it is no worse that evil spirits raise them than that they rise.
Էջ 143 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid, for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for him to be clean.
Էջ 156 - Tis carnificina hominum, angor animi, as well saith Areteus, a plague of the soul, the cramp and convulsion of the soul, an epitome of hell ; and if there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart " For that deep torture may be call'd an hell, When more Is felt, than one hath power to tell.